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So, a couple red flags.

First off - Vivaldi had a press release ready to go on this. I mean sure, they could just be excited about being the default browser and the devs may have reached out to them to let them know but... seems odd.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-is-the-default-browser-on-manjaro-linux/

Seems odder still that the co-CEO of Manjaro decided to do this in a "community" edition. Per said press release:

>To give Vivaldi more of the attention it deserves, I decided to include it as the default browser in our popular Cinnamon Community Edition. With its remarkable browsing speed, exceptional customizability and especially the way it values user privacy, Vivaldi for me is a perfect match for Manjaro Linux.”

If I had to guess I would say that Vivaldi paid to be the new default, probably with the thinking that, if there is minimal backlash, they will pay more to be the default distro wide.

Not great if it is the case.

That is the BE efi. It isnt something to worry about. BE creates a linux partition for the iso and Winblows doesnt see linux partitions.

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On a side note while BE is good, if you like to try other distros or Distrohop you might want to look into Ventoy. I have a 128GB USB with 10 to 12 iso's from Manjaro to PoPOS and even Win7 and 10. I switched over to it and now use it exclusively unless I need persistence. Not to mention it keeps them all in an easy to find place without taking up storage on my systems.

The style and way that you do things with your computer. See it like comparing Windows to MacOS, but I'm not talking about apps or games that can run on each machine, but the way it looks and how you interact with it.

In Linux, we call these Desktop Environments or DEs and we have a lot to choose from: KDE Plasma, Gnome, XFCE, LXQT, Pantheon, Elementary, Deepin, Cinnamon, Mate and many others.

In the end is a matter of taste, pick what DE you think looks great and try it out on a USB with a live image. That's another beauty of Linux, you don't have to install it to test it, you just need a USB (or a DVD if you want) and with an app like Balena Etcher you can see if that distro is right for you. Just remember that distributions (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Manjaro, etc) most of the time come with different desktop environments, so even if you don't like a particular DE you can try another within the same distribution.

PS: maybe this video will help you understand things better and have a quick look of the different desktops.

Cheers!

A few weeks to stable, It's already in "unstable" branch.

If you'd like to test, first make a backup.

sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch unstable sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 5 && sudo pacman -Syyu .

^Sources:

https://manjaro.org/branch-compare/

^https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Switching_Branches

It's an 'official' announcement, and interpreting 'they' as the community is a stretch. It's plainly endorsed by the Manjaro team. It's also interesting that Vivaldi had a press release ready to go:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-is-the-default-browser-on-manjaro-linux/

Notably, that press release includes this tidbit from the co-CEO:

> To give Vivaldi more of the attention it deserves, I decided to include it as the default browser in our popular Cinnamon Community Edition. With its remarkable browsing speed, exceptional customizability and especially the way it values user privacy, Vivaldi for me is a perfect match for Manjaro Linux.”

Mullvad is by far my favorite and I've tried them all. They were one of the first to implement wireguard and now the desktop app actually has wireguard functionality built in if that is something you want to try. You can also sign up with them anonymously if that is your thing.

My second choice would be ProtonVPN.

Switching branches is one way. Don't do this yet unless people have a better way.

Testing has 6.0

Long time Vivaldi and Fedora user here. We got a blog post today to inform the community that Vivaldi is now default on Manjaro Cinnamon. I made a reddit search and stumbled upon this post. Jon v. Tetzchner (CEO, former Opera CEO) wrote it himself. As far as I know Vivaldi didn’t pay anything, but Manjaro and Vivaldi have been in contact.

Yes, Vivaldi is proprietary. The reasons for this circumstance, and what parts exactly are proprietary are laid out in another blog post: <https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/>. There is a chance it could go open source one day.

Vivaldi is a browser without outside investors (the employees own the company), which assures that the interests of the users are the priority (big difference to the way Opera is lead nowadays).

Much more could be said, but frankly I think it would be better you got word from someone from Manjaro and Vivaldi directly.

Are you using the correct credentials? The username/password for OpenVPN are separate and usually different from your Proton account username/password. If not, you can find the OpenVPN credentials under account in the ProtonVPN dashboard

I followed these instructions: https://snapcraft.io/install/gnome-system-monitor/manjaro

But you are right, it's already available in the package manager and I could fix it by installing it from there.

Manjaro repositories lag a couple days/weeks behind Arch repositories. If you want the absolute latest packages on Manjaro, use the <em>unstable</em> branch. You can compare the available package versions between branches with this tool.

Well, Manjaro basically uses packages from Arch Linux with a little extra testing. Latte dock on Manjaro and Arch are on the same version: 0.7.5 as you can see here https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&amp;q=latte-dock if you really need the most recent version you could install the git version from the AUR.

> Why use an Arch-based distribution if you "don't look like r/archlinux"?

Because Manjaro literally promises to be Arch without most of the hassle? Just read the official &quot;about&quot; page before spouting condescending shit like you are. It literally says:

> However, Arch is also aimed at more experienced or technically-minded users. As such, it is generally considered to be beyond the reach of those who lack the technical expertise (or persistence) required to use it.
Developed in Austria, France, and Germany, Manjaro provides all the benefits of the Arch operating system combined with a focus on user-friendliness and accessibility.

And under features it even lists "Its own dedicated software repositories to ensure delivery of fully tested and stable software packages".

Mate, so the main issue is that you can't find a Linux distro that works with VPN? I got NordVPN going on Linux after authentication errors, that got over my head. After support contact, they explained that OpenVPN script often has issues recognising special characters like !@#$%^&*( - which I had quite a few in my password. After going for alphanumerical password - the authentication issue has gone away. Might be your case too.

AUR packages are just PKGBUILD files that build Arch packages, which are then installed using Pacman. Any package installed through Pacman is saved in the Pacman cache, so if you want to save installed packages for later use you can directly copy them from the cache location (/var/cache/pacman/pkg).

Lutris is the way to go for installing games from different launchers. You can install the lutris launcher or just use the scripts from the website.

Here is the page for Dead Cells. The GOG script is there.

You should definetely learn how Pacman works! Here's the wiki on pacman. Also if you want to play any games, you should definetely download Lutris and Wine!

Two options -

GUI - click on the manjaro button for your "start menu" and then add/remove software. It should be right up front in favorites. Or start typing in octopi and and open that up. You can then search graphically for everything on offer from the official list.

CLI - pacman. Octopi is a front for pacman. In your specific case, you'd enter

# pacman -S skype

and follow the prompts. If there isn't an official option, you can use aur to find unofficial releases.

Hello, I'd suggest you trying the GUI way, following Ubuntu's guide. Menus are slightly different between Plasma and Unity, but the general idea is the same:

• Download pre-configurated file from your VPN provider;
• In network settings find how to create a new connection and choose "Import a saved VPN configuration";
• Select the file you got from the provider, add your username/pass and any other required information;
• Then either it'll connect automatically or you'll be able to connect to VPN from the network drop-down menu.

I'd like to give more detailed description with screenshots, but my motherboard died, so I currently don't have access to my setup. Also my VPN provider doesn't require manual DNS configuration, and offers one .ovpn file instead of .conf/.crt/.key, so there may be some differences.

First, there's only one FDE in Linux (LUKS / Crypsetup), so there's no such thing as one full disk ecnryption packaged with Mint and one with Manjaro.
Still, from the top of my head, Mint will default to LVM when choosing FDE, while I'm pretty sure Manjaro doesn't. Can't tell if it makes any huge difference.
The screen with a countdown is GRUB. You can get rid of it (the Timeout) if you want by editing /etc/default/grub then run sudo update-grub.
You can't normally add second or third chances to enter your passphrase in this case. I know there are some very unnofficial patches (like creating a nuke fake passphrase), but I wouldn't recommend starting to mess around with it, especially since you seem to be in your early Linux stage.
While you at it, I'd suggest to explore Cryptsetup, starting with cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup :) . More over there

> I can't re-install normally because that ends up migrating some files from the old installation which is no good.

You don't need Linux for that. Boot to the Windows installer and go through the steps. When you see a screen that looks like this, select your Windows partition and click on Format. This will erase everything. Then you can install.

If you want to manage partitions on Linux without installing it, you should use GParted live CD/USB drive, not Manjaro which is a full OS.

I love threads like this. I always learn so much (scrcpy sounds awesome, but not sure how I'd use it). Tickr is one I hadn't heard of as well.

Here's what I use:

• ulauncher (my favorite launcher by far)
• Dropbox
• Discord
• Steam
• Lutris (essential if you're into gaming)
• Timeshift (backup)
• Ice (a Peppermint OS designed app that can create webapps/SSB's out of URLs)
• Hiri (email software with terrific Office365 compatibility)
• WPS Office suite (terrific MS Office compatibility)
• Private Internet Access VPN
• Citrix Receiver (for access to my workplace's network)
• Texpander (a text expander app to insert sentences, commands, and paragraphs I use a lot)
• DiffPDF (an app to compare differences in the text between pdf's, great for contracts and multiple versions of documents)
• BalenaEtcher (for writing ISO's, I need to find a replacement for this, any ideas?)
• Plank (despite being on KDE, still my favorite dock)
• Mellow (consolidates many cloud internet players in one app)

KDE specific: kwin-low-latency (a faster, customized fork of KDE's window compositor)

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Also, here is a terrific thread from the Manjaro forums of favorite lesser known apps.

Status of package ca-certificate on your system? That package provides updated Certificate Authority info, and if you have an outdated package, I could see it giving problems.

Should be version 20180821-1.
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&amp;q=Ca-cert&amp;maintainer=&amp;flagged=

I switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro a couple years ago and, for me, it's been the most stable setup I've ever had. Since you seem to have an interest in keyboard efficiency, have you tried the i3 version?

You can find more about comparison of package managers on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta.

Or if you intend to use AUR, I recommend YAY, which serves as wrapper around pacman and can make your package management a lot easier.

From man pacman

--needed
Do not reinstall the targets that are already up-to-date

It relates to package groups (like gnome). If you install a group package, but already have some of the packages in the group, the --needed flag makes it only install the ones that it really needs to, instead of running reinstalls on packs you might already have.

I would say that if you don't know you need it, you don't need it.

But think of it like this:

sudo pacman -S groupypackage

Contains packages pack1 through 10. You already have pack9 installed. If you don't use --needed it will reinstall pack9. If you use --needed it will just leave pack9 as is. (Arch wiki has a little bit on it here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman )

>(equivalent to apt update && apt install <package>)

>sudo pacman -Sy <package>

Don't do that on rolling release distros: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Installing_packages

>Warning: When installing packages in Arch, avoid refreshing the package list without upgrading the system (for example, when a package is no longer found in the official repositories). In practice, do not run pacman -Sy package_name instead of pacman -Sy*u* package_name, as this could lead to dependency issues.

While Manjaro uses its own repositories and is therefore not exactly Arch, most of the info on the Arch wiki is relevant to you. You should start by reading this section on pacman, Manjaro's package manager. The basic concept is the same as apt, but every package manager has its own syntax and its own behavior.

For example, pacman -S lutris wine will install both on your system, though maybe you should be installing wine-staging instead.

If in the future you need something that is not available on the official Manjaro repos, try looking for it in the AUR, eg through yay. But inform yourself on what the AUR is and why you should be more skeptical about downloads from there.

Welcome to Manjaro!

I would recommend using yay instead of yaourt as a pacman front-end/AUR helper for when you use the cli instead of octopi/pamac-manager.

sudo pacman -S yay

As this link shows yaourt is deemed to be inactive and I found yay to be more than sufficient as well as being easy to remember/type out.

To search for a package just type yay 'package-name'

I think that you will also find the Pacman Rosetta very useful in learning to parse common commands.

• Personal hardware expenses are not listed in "For what will my donations be used for?" on Manjaro donation site
• From that site: "The Community board is approving the use of donations to fund project-related expenses in coordination with the fiscal host. The company may advise, but will never interfere with decision-making by the community board." - in this case, the Company said: "hand me the money" and when Community treasurer refused, he was removed (not resigned).
• 2000€ for a developer's laptop is a bit much… it's totally understandable why the treasurer would want to have explained why the expense is needed, instead of just handing out the money.

> I also get where the lead developer is coming from.

I don't. Handling of this issue is shady; 2 days and no official statement.

use this new thing called VENTOY - https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

It is like magic... basically it partitions the USB into two parts a small bit at the top with code and then the rest is just disk space. Once it is finished, you simply put in the disk and copy the iso file onto it. That is literally it. That is all you have to do. It eve n supports multiBoot and reads recursive directories. Forget boot usbs and having a draw of small of 4-16 gigers..... get a 128-256 and just put on every distro, windows install iso, recovery tool isos, disk cloner isos, even put in drivers and stuff you may need after install... all in one. It is a amazing bit of software. I found out about it in a blog by the guy that makes rufus where he was saying Ventoy has basically made evey boot maker in existence obsolete.

Anyway, give it a try. Just make sure the file name of the iso files have no spaces (looking at you windows10.iso)

I think while that is part of it, it's mainly because Ubuntu is deciding to 32 bit app support. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/ubuntu-is-dropping-all-32-bit-support-going-forward

Doesn't seems like VirtualBox supports vhdx-files, which are for Hyper-V.

You need VDI-files to use with VB. Maybe this can help you create one from your physical disk;
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-convertfromraw

Also worth mentioning that qemu/kvm supports using physical disks, but not sure if that is what you want.

Wait, India isn't in the mirror list? That's really strange, considering India is one of the biggest countries in the world by size or population. Arch Linux has some India mirrors here:

https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?country=IN&amp;protocol=http&amp;protocol=https&amp;ip_version=4

I'd suggest maybe emailing them or something and requesting that they also host Manjaro repos.

For many smaller programs, running non-native software on Linux is a real possibility. However, Pro Tools is far too big and complicated to do such a thing. The core issue is that supposedly Pro Tools makes kernel calls, something that, as far as I know, no compatibility layer tools (such as Wine or Darling) account for.

If you must use Pro Tools on Manjaro, a virtual machine is your best bet, though I have no clue how well that would work. If you do start down that rabbit hole, I suggest trying the MacOS version first, since MacOS is more similar to Linux than Windows is.

My recommendation is to either a) not use Linux, or b) use a Linux DAW (look here). You could dual boot (ie have both Linux and Windows/MacOS installed), but this will get annoying if you're going to use pro tools multiple times a day.

download the AppImage then right click and run with AppImageLauncher

if it doesn't run right click - properties - permissions tab - make sure 'is executable' checkbox is ticked

1. Depends on the desktop environment I believe. But should be possible.

2. Yes should be fine. Tell the installer to format the / (root) partition.

3. Looked it up and that's quite the explorer. Don't directly know a comparison. According to alternative to, double commander might work for you.

4. Get a aur wrapper, trizen or yay. And I like gamemode by feral interactive.

This is one of the areas where Manjaro is not an advantage. Arch had it within minutes of it being removed from the AUR. Perhaps you should try the snapshot version which is still in the AUR and rarely has any issues. It does update more often though. Or you could compile it yourself from source code.

https://vivaldi.com/source/

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You should feel secure in downloading software from SourceForge again. We are committed to making sure we host clean open source software.

https://www.google.com/chrome/

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You'll want to check out the Asahi Linux project, which is working towards getting Linux working on Apple Silicon.

IIRC it's still in development but they've made an insane amount of progress so hopefully the wait won't be too long!

From the Github page: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

> The winget.exe client is instrumented to collect usage and diagnostic (error) data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve the product.

You can build and disable this, but I am concerned about the default installation later (its opt-out, not opt-in). Everything you install and use will probably be collected as usage data and sent.

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/privacy.md

> There are also some features in the software that may enable you and Microsoft to collect data from users of your applications.

For snap, he linked to the package in the Ubuntu repos that simply installs the snap. This package is likely not updated regularly since it doesn't really contain anything. The snap itself is up to date.

see this for pacman - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta

but you might prefer pamac commands

pamac --version

pamac --help, -h [action]

pamac search [options] <package(s)>

pamac list [options] <package(s)>

pamac info [options] <package(s)>

pamac install [options] <package(s)>

pamac reinstall [options] <package(s)>

pamac remove [options] [package(s)]

pamac checkupdates [options]

pamac update,upgrade [options]

pamac clone [options] <package(s)>

pamac build [options] [package(s)]

pamac clean [options]

Looks like there is something wrong with the drive image. Is mGAMe its own OS (never heard of it before)? I use a program called yumi to create boot drives for linux unless I have access to dd.

https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

Even though I switched to KDE now (issues with my 165hz monitor on Gnome 40), I preferred the theme that Manjaro comes with (everything green!) even on KDE. That's my reason to switch to testing (and now unstable) branch to try Gnome 40.

You can check where the package has landed using https://manjaro.org/branch-compare/

I see it's already in the stable branch, maybe your mirror did not get updated yet (how does that happen?)

Yes manjaro.org is down, the GitHub repo should be up. The forum of the website is still up so forum.manjaro.org, if we go by what the manjaro team posted on twitter, their host is moving manjaros server.

There is no easy way to remove systemd, no.

You could use Manjaro Architect in the past to setup another init system, but I'm not sure if it's possible now. Couldn't hurt to browse around the Manjaro forums to make sure.

I've made similar journey over Obarun, Void, Archlabs, ... to conclude on Arch in which I could use all that I had learned in the journey. I saw no reason not the use systemd in the end.

There's always http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_distributions_without_systemd

They forgot the Gnome version. The website isn't fully updated yet, but Gnome became officially supported with 17.0 instead of just a community spin.

>GNOME being a powerful, userfriendly, easy to use, customizable and fully accesible GTK3+ desktop environment, the Manjaro team has decided to offer the GNOME edition as a third official flavour with the 17.0 release.

Source: https://manjaro.org/2017/03/07/manjaro-gnome-17-0-released/

A great way to find out how well Manjaro handles your system is to download an ISO and burn it to a USB stick and then boot from it. If your wifi, graphics, and such work from the ISO, they'll work from an installation.

I would advise you to install Manjaro in something like Virtualbox before you try it for real. That way if you mess up, you're not losing anything.

Backup any data you care about, including windows unless you're ok with reinstalling from scratch.

Rufus is an excellent way to make the USB. When you tell it to make one, it will ask you if you want to do so in DD or ISO mode. For Manjaro, choose DD. It's a long story. You can also use balenaEtcher.

If you can, put Manjaro on a completely separate disk with its own EFI boot partition/MBR In the past, Windows has deleted files needed for Linux to boot when upgrading.

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Good luck!

just thinking outside the box but if all you want to do is watch your media from any device then you should centralize your media and then stream it anywhere using this

https://jellyfin.org/

you dont have to transfer or sync files across pcs.... you just host all your media in 1 spot and stream it to any device you want... just my 2 cents

Fair enough. Depending on software needs Linux offers a vast range of alternative software. https://alternativeto.net/platform/linux/

If it's Adobe products or gaming then stay in Windows if you can't be bothered with work around. Just saying if you were not aware.

Not sure if you're okay with it, but systemd-homed offers a pretty slick experience for encryption. It only encrypts your home directory however, its not full disk encryption. I use it using fscrypt, and its awesome. You can also use it using LUKS, but IMO its much more messy that way, with many more loopback disks etc. But there are advantages to that too.

I followed this guide to transfer my user to homed: https://systemd.io/CONVERTING_TO_HOMED/

Regardless it would be good to back up your home directory first.

>why is my Neovim still at version 0.4 not 0.5?

https://neovim.io/

>FAQ
>What is the project status? > The current stable release version is 0.4.4 (RSS). See the roadmap for progress and plans.

I'd recommend switching over to proprietary as they've worked just fine for me in regards to gaming and watching videos. With Firefox I highly recommend enabling hardware acceleration as it allows the browser to take advantage of your Nvidia GPU and as a result it fixed my screen tearing and could fix your slowdown. This guide should explain how to enable it. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/small-tweak-makes-firefox-linux-run-much-faster Cheers!

>encrypted internet

Also known as a VPN?

You're moving your endpoint from your ISP to your VPN provider, in this article's case: Mullvad.
To add: Wireguard is still in early stages and not meant for production use: >WireGuard is not yet complete. You should not rely on this code. It has not undergone proper degrees of security auditing and the protocol is still subject to change. We're working toward a stable 1.0 release, but that time has not yet come. There are experimental snapshots tagged with "0.0.YYYYMMDD", but these should not be considered real releases and they may contain security vulnerabilities (which would not be eligible for CVEs, since this is pre-release snapshot software). If you are packaging WireGuard, you must keep up to date with the snapshots.

Since you didn't mention what Manjaro version you've got installed on your laptop, go here and pick release if you've got a very recent release or archive in case of an older version. Then just browse to the folder of your version and download the official Manjaro User Guide pdf. After finishing it, the best resource for learning more about Manjaro is actually the Arch Linux Wiki.

Good luck!

>anything other than Steam won't work :(

Did you checkout Lutris?

Dualboot is perfectly fine,most people do and some people even do a Windows VM with a GPU passthrough for those games that doesn't work with Linux yet.

Oh I thought you have GTA V on Steam,if you purchased the game on the RLS then use Lutris instead.

https://lutris.net/games/grand-theft-auto-v/

Just click install the Rockstar Launcher version and will do everything for you.

pacman -U https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia-dkms/download/
would already do the trick and wouldn't even mess up your repositories/mirrors
but yea, this could lead to funny issues

I use Manjaro for work, and I don't have a backup computer handy in my apartment. I haven't had any issues with any updates breaking my system. Keep an eye on Arch Linux News for any releases that have update issues. My experience is that the fixes usually take 2 minutes and are no big deal.

Manjaro holds packages back a couple weeks, unlike Arch, so you avoid some situations that Arch users deal with, as well. Which still aren't numerous.

The same net-install version which was available is still available in the archive, you can download it here.
Don't know why a netinstall version hasn't been made from the latest Manjaro version, maybe because the other 17.* images aren't perfectly stable either or it just doesn't show the download numbers for it to be worth it, can only speculate.

Manjaro xfce does feel snappy because it doesn’t really have many animations. (Also has less ram usage) You can go for manjaro kde if you like to customise. (Also has support for widgets which is really cool)

For steam games check with https://www.protondb.com

Not steam games, check with https://lutris.net

> Why is an LTS kernel marked as "stable" on the front page?

>Long-term support ("LTS") kernels announced on the Releases page will be marked as "stable" on the front page if there are no other current stable kernel releases. This is done to avoid breaking automated parsers monitoring kernel.org with an expectation that there will always be a kernel release marked as "stable." - kernel.org

5.11 just got released yesterday so 5.10 should be marked LTS soon on the kernel.org website. Then it takes a while after that to work its way through to Manjaro stable.

So, my guess is that in the next couple of weeks you'll see the change reflected in Manjaro.

I don't use a controller at all with a computer, so I'm just shooting in the dark here, but unless Manjaro is doing something different, bluez hasn't been updated in 5 months, so downgrading that likely wasn't necessary.

bluez-qt was updated about a week ago, but likely not the culprit. Either way, going by what is in the wiki for bluetooth gamepads, have you checked the status of your bluetooth.service to make sure there are no reported errors?

Ah, I see. Your link is malformed. Reddit uses Markdown, not BBCode. Links should be formatted like this: [wipe] (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/wipe/) without the space.

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How do you know it's no longer being maintained? It was just updated May 30th. Also, the project itself hasn't been updated since 2009.

Spotify’s Linux installation guide says to type snap install spotify in the Konsole. I’ve done this. It works flawlessly.

Edit: just noticed you got it solved after I typed this. Lol, glad my same method worked.

Thank you, but thats for the Manjaro unstable branch, not kde-unstable. For example, look on the Manjaro branch compare website https://manjaro.org/branch-compare/?query=plasma you can see there is a separate repo labeled "kde-unstable". Do you know how to add this repo to an existing Manjaro installation?

Hmmm, with everything multi platform, officials documentation have guides. But overall, there are 100s of tutorials online and probably 100s of books on this topic. Just try get a bit playing with it, and I'm sure you would start feeling comfortable.

• You can always change icon of desktop file, just right click and click existing icon. Then icons dialogue box appears, search and select favourite one.

• For NodeJS https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/getting-started-guide/ try this if you have installed nodejs.

Ensures Nodejs is installed by reinstalling using

sudo pacman -S nodejs

Don't be afraid of the terminal, its your friend.
Switch shell to zsh if you're using the terminal.

There are plenty of open source apps for almost anything you'd like to do these days.
Give them a try.
Check out FossHub for some of the most popular ones out there.

Check this site out for some basics on Linux itself.

Good luck and stay safe on Linux.

You don‘t need a payed account for thunderbird.

https://www.thunderbird.net/ is the software I‘m talking about. The best way to install these programs is to use the package manager (called ‚add/remove software‘ in the launcher) and search for them by name.

Also you can use IMAP for E-Mail sync. Just google „imap settings gmail“ If you are concerned about security: e-Mail is not encrypted by default. Not even Gmail.

Don’t worry about your E-Mail getting hacked from using a client. Geary stores your login info only on your computer and not in the cloud much like the Website would.

Also e-Mail is a standard so Geary is no more of a third Party app for E-Mail than Firefox is a third Party app for the Internet.

The fact is that there aren't that many things to learn IN DEPTH that are specific to Manjaro aside its package manager (which came from Arch btw).

But you can, of course, learn IN DEPTH GNU/Linux itself, and you'll be able to apply this knowledge to every distro you'll end up with any time soon. There is a book, which can help you understand GNU/Linux better: How Linux Works. I can't recommend it enough, it's just so good.

But if you want to learn something for free I recommend Linux Fundamentals series. It's one of the best introduction articles out there, but even if you are experienced user, you may find it useful anyway. These 4 articles will help you understand the system much better.

And, of course, don't forget about ArchWiki.

KDE Neon uses the KDE Plasma desktop environment. They are the same thing!

https://neon.kde.org/

Also there is not a lot of version difference between KDE Neon and Manjaro KDE.

KDE Neon is developed by the KDE community and developers think of it like a vanilla KDE on a minimal Ubuntu base. Manjaro KDE minimal is a very similar distro to it.

vim is a snapd package and is not included with Manjaro by default. You'll need to install vim manually before that command will work. Use the below link for instructions and explanations.

https://snapcraft.io/install/vim-editor/arch

Instead of of apt you'll be using pacman. ArchWiki is the best source to understand how to fully use it.

So pacman is used for official repositories of Manjaro. But if you can't find something there you'll probably find it in AUR (Arch User Repository), simply put custom installation scripts written by other users and companies. Now these can be installed by hand, or using tools like pamac (installed by default on Manjaro) or yay.

For the most part most linux distributions are similar, the file structure is the same, location of software is the same, config files for the most part are the same. And just like most distros these days Manjaro and Arch both use SystemD.

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Main tip when using Manjaro, use the ArchWiki for help, most things on that Wiki apply to Manjaro. If anything does go wrong this subreddit and Manjaro Forum are the two best places to get help.

just to add, pacman -Rs would also remove all unused dependencies of the package which is more akin to the --purge flag of apt-get if I remember correctly?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Removing_packages

A lot of that is going to come with time an gaining experience with trial an error. I'd certainly recommend reading https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman since that is your package manager. Also depends on what you want out of linux.

Actually, "pacman -R" just removes the package but not it's dependencies that will become "orphans" after the main package is uninstalled. So if you really want a clean uninstall you should do "pacman -Rns", where:

-R removes the main package n removes its dependencies s removes the configuration files (remove this one if you plan to reinstall the package in the future).

Every time you have a question about something on Manjaro, check the official Arch Linux wiki because it's very complete and useful.

If you have already uninstalled something with "pacman -R", then do:

pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)

[to remove all orphans](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Removing_unused_packages_(orphans\))

>-To update your sources and then install use
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>(equivalent to apt update && apt install <package>)
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>sudo pacman -Sy <package>

God no. That is a command to leave your system in a broken state.
We never simply do 'pacman -Sy' unless in very very specific circumstances.

This is the definition of 'partial upgrade'. Do not do this.

(sorry for being .. brash? .. but this is the most upvoted comment and instructs users to break their systems)

If someone must translate apt to pacman .. use the rosetta.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta

compiling from source you are going to use gno tools - which are the same in ubuntu and arch

(they might be built with slightly different flags .. but not enough for me to know/notice off-hand)

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As to obtaining software outside the repos, as others mentioned the AUR is the first place to look.

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To your larger questions ..

Instead of apt-get the package manager is pacman. See the rosetta:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta

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You might also want to learn how to turn those raw compilations into pkgbuilds for sharing or better integration with your system.

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Then the big ones for manjaro specifically .. mostly our convenience tools: mhwd mhwd-kernel pacman-mirrors

I'm also a recent convert from Kubuntu to Manjaro KDE. I've found the following web page very helpful to find pacman equivalents to apt-get commands: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta

If there are no issues I'd prefer to setup someone with a Solus box. Unfortunately Solus can be hit or miss depending on the hardware and your needs. So as long as it works out of the box for what you need, it should be a pretty stable setup I think.

https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#keybindings

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Also you might want to ask yourself what windows do you really need to be floating. i3 is a tiling WM, which makes it great for keyboard-only use on a laptop. If there's something that you want out of the way for a moment just send it to the scratchpad.

Part 2. To change the date format, you have to config i3status. On a terminal:

$ mkdir ~/.config/i3status/ && cp -v /etc/i3status.conf ~/.config/i3status/config $ vim ~/.config/i3status/config

Press shift+g or G to go to the last line of the text file and you'll find:

tztime local { # format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" format = " %m.%d.%Y %H:%M "

Change the format to " \%d.\%m.\%Y %H:%M ". Save the changes with the w command.

About the no lan thing, it's in the same file. Search for " no lan " and change it to "". Then wq on command mode and Shift+mod+r.

If you haven't figured it out yet, you just have to edit the i3 config file. On a terminal, type:

vim ~/.i3/config

Then, press / to search, type position and press enter. You'll find:

# Start i3bar to display a workspace bar (plus the system information i3status if available) bar { i3bar_command i3bar status_command i3status position bottom

Now press i to enter the insert mode, with the arrows you can move the cursor and then just backspace "bottom" and add "top". Press esc to exit insert mode, press : to enter command mode, then type wq and press enter, which will write and quit respectively.

Finally, press mod+Shift+r and it'll reload the config file (since you're coming from Windows, your mod key is probably the "Windows" key). You can find more info here and here.

I would look at Compton, your compositor. Or install it if it isn't already on your system. There were a few issues with some AMD drivers, so read this page and try resetting Compton and/or changing the graphics drivers. It has been a while since I set up i3, but I remember having some problems for a short time until I messed with Compton. I am also running an AMD gpu, but a really old one right now. There is also a ton of information in the i3 Users Guide.

There is no such thing as "best distro for gaming". It's all Linux. What you may find is that some distros delivers you things out of the box, like GPU drives and pre-installed game platforms. e. g. Pop!_OS. Though a little Linux Knowledge is enough to install GPU drives and the things you need.

Kubuntu - kde beta ppa, KDE neon dev git-stable edition iso, Fedora rawhide iso, Opensuse kde unstable repos. Or maybe set up a Docker environment (probably too much effort though).

Probably test on an old secondary machine with a cheap ssd or older spinner hdd (that you don't care about).

You can,go to the AUR page of wine-staging 6.11 and click on "Download from mirror",then you can double click on them to install it or via terminal

sudo pacman -U [name of the file]

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Also,you can check where are the version by branch here

https://manjaro.org/branch-compare/

Based on what you just told me, I recommend going the i3 route: https://manjaro.org/download/#i3

You are not stuck with the environment that came on your installation media, and i3 is the smallest. Plasma will just give you the most for its weight, I imagine.

Manjaro Architect isn't what I'd recommend if you're new!

I see on my system there is a meta package called manjaro-pipewire. It will install pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack wireplumber

Checking https://manjaro.org/branch-compare/, I see it's only in the testing and unstable repositories for now.

I haven't tried installing it and removing pulseaudio since I don't feel like risking any breakage, but I wonder if after you install these you would be able to successfully remove pulseaudio?

I understand that pipewire is still fairly new so finding much support will be more difficult. Good luck!

They've gone through their installation in a virtual machine to make that guide and they've installed both systems in legacy mode rather than UEFI, which is odd as virtually any modern system would be using UEFI. The way they talk about a swap partition makes it sound near essential, it isn't, they're a pain to resize and using a swap file is a much better solution for most people. It seems like the person who wrote it either didn't know what they were talking about, were in a hurry, or just didn't care.

It's a bad guide, I can't say exactly whats gone wrong in your case not knowing your system but there's way too much that guide doesn't account for. Take a look at the official user guide instead.

If yours is a UEFI system as the first video you linked suggests (YouTube videos are also very unreliable sources of information and should be avoided) then you would install Windows and Manjaro both in UEFI mode, typically sharing an EFI partition though you can give Manjaro it's own if you like. Then you would use grub to boot both operating systems. Running "sudo update-grub" in Manjaro would search for other operating systems and add them to the menu if they aren't already there. If the menu still wasn't showing up you would edit "/etc/default/grub" and add "menu" to the line like so

GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu

That's probably what you needed to do in the first place, but I think you'll have to start from scratch now.

User Guide

This guide helped me a lot as beginner. There are more qualified people here to comment on your specific query, but I feel if you manage to continue your stay with Manjaro, it might very well prove handy.

From one beginner to the other. Don't worry much, this community is very helpful and I am sure that your issue will be resolved very soon.

Hope you enjoy the much loved linux that Manjaro is.

Do you have something like secure boot or legacy boot option on your BIOS/UEFI ? Those could be involved.

Did you read the Manjaro installation user guide ? That was really helpful for me.

https://manjaro.org/support/userguide/

Basically the differences between versions of Manjaro are the software included and desktop environment which influences the "beginner-friendliness" of the OS. I currently use the KDE version and it's been absolutely fantastic! manjaro.org actually helps you sort versions based on user-friendliness, resource efficiency, and some other ones I can't think of at the moment. If you're still not sure which DE to go for do some research on Youtube and reviews on websites. The easier editions of Manjaro are XFCE, KDE, Gnome, and Budgie.

In regards to graphic card drivers, Manjaro makes it very easy to download and install the software you need as it detects what you need. I doubt you'll have many issues on this aspect.

As far as changing BIOS settings, disable secure boot and, if necessary, enable legacy boot. Though, I'm pretty sure Manjaro supports UEFI but don't take my word for it.

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Anywho hope this helps. I'll try to answer any other questions if I can. May you transition smoothly into the best OS!

The descriptions I mentioned were lifted by OP straight from the Manjaro download page. Manjaro's page itself classifies only XFCE, KDE, Cinnamon, and MATE as "traditional". So plagiarism aside, it's clearly meant by the Manjaro team to tell us something, but I can't figure out what, really.

That's one of the (many) problems with the Calamares installer. It looks pretty and is pretty functional if it works, but it usually doesn't.

As for a solution, well, I'm afraid there is not a lot you can do. In my case, disabling any internet connectivity sometimes worked, but I'm not sure if that works for everyone. If you are a more advanced user you could also try out Manjaro Archtiect, which is what I've been using for my current install. Works great, but its more tedious and requires more advanced knowledge.

I know that this situation kind of sucks, but there just isn't much that you can do about this right now.

Ventoy persistence feature depends on that the distro supports persistence itself. If the distro doesn't support persistence, then the persistence feature will not take effect.

see also: https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html

CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu are much more appropriate for a server OS, IMO. Manjaro is just too bleeding edge and you don't want that kind of instability for a server OS.

For a home/hobby/average server I would recommend using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server Edition.

https://www.ubuntu.com/server

A LMMS forum post mentions that they have a lot of MIDI keyboards/controllers and you are able to record MIDI according to this forum post (Note: I am not a user of MPC and LMMS, I use DaVinci Resolve and I am new to audacity but I have been aware of the existence of the software for a while). Here is the link: https://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1627